First Edition
Showing 6681–6700 of 7585 results
-
Browse by Category
- Browse All
- Americana
- Art and Architecture
- Autograph Letters Signed
- Biography and Autobiography
- Children's Books
- Economics and Finance
- Featured Rare Books
- Fine Bindings and Sets
- First Edition
- First Edition>Signed
- Food and Wine
- Framed Autographs and Historical Documents
- Geography
- Gifts
- Gifts - For Her
- Gifts - For Him
- Gifts - Graduation and Celebrations
- Gifts - Holidays
- History, Law, and Politics
- Literature
- Music
- New Arrivals
- Philosophy
- Photography
- Poetry
- Presidents and World Leaders
- Religion
- Science and Natural History
- Science Fiction and Mystery
- Signed
- Signed & Autographed Books
- Sports and Leisure
- Travel and Exploration
- Uncategorized
-
"Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write": First Edition of What is considered Ruth Rendell’s Greatest Works A Judgement in Stone
RENDELL, Ruth.
A Judgement in Stone.
London: Hutchinson, 1977.
First edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Hannah Shaviv. Author's photograph by Jerry Bauer.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 131487
-
First Edition of Sonnets: 1889-1927; Signed by Edwin Arlington Robinson
ROBINSON, Edwin Arlington.
Sonnets: 1889-1927
New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928.
First edition of this collection of sonnets from 1889 to 1927. Octavo, original half cloth with decorated boards. Boldly signed by Edwin Arlington Robinson on the half-title page. In near fine condition with some rubbing to the extremities and front panel.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 145427
-
"You go for me and I’m taboo, But if you’re hard to get, I’ll go for you And if I do, then you are through, Oh, my baby, that’s the end of you": Collection of three musical scores from George Bizet and Oscar Hammerstein II's Carmen Jones
BIZET, George and Oscar Hammerstein II.
Carmen Jones Musical Score Collection.
New York: Williamson Music, Inc., 1943.
Collection of three musical scores from Bizet and Hammerstein's popular musical. Quarto, three volumes, original illustrated wrappers. The collection includes piano scores for Stan' Up An' Fight, Dat's Love, and My Joe. In very good to near fine condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 138564
-
First edition of D. J. Enright's Selected Poems; inscribed by him to legendary photojournalist Sally Soames
ENRIGHT, D. J.
Selected Poems 1990.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.
First edition of this collection containing many of Enright's finest poems. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the poet on the title page, "For Sally Soames (& cameras) - Dennis Enright." The recipient, British photojournalist Sally Soames, worked for The Sunday Times from 1968 until 2000 and was highly regarded for her exclusively black and white portraits of many of the most prominent figures of the 20th century including Menachem Begin, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Thatcher, Sean Connery, Rudolf Nureyev, Alec Guinness and Andy Warhol. Soames, who was known to be a warm and personal journalist, performed extensive research…
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 124389
-
First edition of Jean Genet's Our Lady of the Flowers; From the library of Peter Matthiessen
GENET, Jean. Translated by Bernard Frechtman. Jean-Paul Sartre [Peter Matthiessen].
Our Lady of the Flowers.
New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1963.
First American edition of Genet's debut novel. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of Peter Matthiessen with his bookplate to the pastedown. American writer Peter Matthiessen remains the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction (The Snow Leopard, 1979) and fiction (Shadow Country, 2008). A prominent environmental activist, Matthiessen received the National Book Award for Fiction in 2008 at the age of 81 for Shadow Country. “No one writes more lyrically [than Matthiessen] about animals or describes more movingly the spiritual experience of mountaintops, savannas, and the sea” (Michael Dirda). Near fine in a good dust…
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 142737
-
First Edition of Matsushita Leadership; Signed by John Kotter
KOTTER, John P.
Matsushita Leadership: Lessons From the 20th Century’s Most Remarkable Entrepreneur.
New York : The Free Press, 1997.
First edition of this work by the best-selling author. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by John P. Kotter on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Calvin Chu.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 144882
-
Rare first edition of George Taylor's An Account of the Genus Meconopsis
TAYLOR, George.
An Account of the Genus Meconopsis.
London: New Flora and Silva Ltd, 1934.
First edition of Taylor's best-known work. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with frontispiece, 29 plates from photographs and 12 distributional maps. In very good condition. Small ownership name.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 137344
-
"Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth": First Edition of Aldous Huxley's Ape and Essence
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Ape and Essence.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1949.
First English edition of this cautionary tale and satire. Small octavo, original cloth, top edge blue. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 146156
-
First edition of John Guzzwell's Trekka Round The World; from the library of explorer and adventurer Steve Fossett
GUZZWELL, John.
Trekka Round The World.
London: Adlard Coles Ltd, 1963.
First edition of Guzzwell's account of his four-year single-handed voyage around the world. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate to the front pastedown. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in 2002 in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom. He completed the 2002 trip in 13 days, 8 hours, and 33 minutes and set records for both the Longest Distance Flown Solo in a Balloon and Fastest Balloon Flight Around the World. Fosset was also one of sailing’s most prolific…
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 114964
-
"It was...unnecessary for me to fret about who the murderer was: Everybody was": First Edition of Imre Kertesz's The Union Jack; Signed by Him
KERTESZ, Imre.
The Union Jack.
New York: Melville House, 2009.
First edition of this novella by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by Imre Kertesz on the title page. In fine condition. Translated by Tim Wilkinson.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 1492
-
First Edition of the Importance of Being Ernest; Signed by Ernest Cline
CLINE, Ernest.
The Importance of Being Ernest.
Austin, TX: Write Bloody Press, 2013.
First edition. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers as issued. Signed by Ernest Cline on the title page. In fine condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 12020
-
"FOR IN THE END, IS IT NOT FITTING THAT A BOOK ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION SHOULD CLOSE BY STUDYING WHAT THE CONSTITUTION IS NOT ABOUT?" The 1979 Supplement to American Constitutional Law; inscribed by Laurence H. Tribe
TRIBE, Laurence H.
1979 Supplement to American Constitutional Law.
Mineola, New York: The Foundation Press, Inc, 1979.
The 1979 supplement to Tribe's American Constitutional Law. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Best wishes, Laurence Tribe 2/09." In near fine condition. Ownership name to the front panel.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 118015
-
Dick Cavett's Brief Encounters; inscribed by him to Bill Zwecker
CAVETT, Dick. Foreword by Jimmy Fallon [William Safire].
Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2014.
First edition, early printing of Cavett's engaging memoir. Octavo, original boards. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Tom & Bill - Dick Cavett." The recipient, Bill Zwecker, was a longtime entertainment and celebrity journalist. A Chicago native and second-generation newspaper star (his late mother, Peg Zwecker, was the fashion editor of the Sun-Times and Chicago Daily News), Zwecker began his journalism career in the 1980s and has since interviewed some of the most renowned celebrities across a breadth of industries. He has been a frequent contributor to numerous national news and entertainment programs including…
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 133039
-
First Edition of The Daniel J. Boorstin Reader; Signed by Him
BOORSTIN, Daniel J.
The Daniel J. Boorstin Reader.
New York: The Modern Library, 1995.
First edition of this compilation of the works of Daniel Boorstin. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Boldly signed by Daniel J. Bernstein on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Introduction by Roderick MacLeish.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 68963
-
First Edition of Tibet's Secret Mountain: The Triump of Sepu Kangri; Signed by Bonington and Clarke; From the library of fellow Adventurer Steve Fossett.
BONINGTON, Chris and Charles Clarke.
Tibet’s Secret Mountain: The Triump of Sepu Kangri.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson , 2000.
First edition of this work by Bonington and Clarke. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Signed by Chris Bonington and Charles Clarke on the title page. From the library of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown of each volume. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in 2002 in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom. He completed the 2002 trip in 13 days, 8 hours, and 33 minutes and set records for both the Longest Distance Flown Solo in a Balloon and Fastest Balloon…
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 111347
-
First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Letters to the Family (Notes on a trip to Canada)
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Letters to the Family (Notes on a trip to Canada).
Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada, Limited, 1908.
First edition in book form of this collection of Kipling's letters which first appeared in Newspapers during the spring of 1908 after a trip to Canada undertaken in the autumn of 1907. 12 mo, original wrappers. In very good condition. Rare.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 122384
-
First Edition of Orwell's Revenge. The 1984 Palimpsest; Inscribed by Peter Huber to William Safire
HUBER, Peter [William Safire].
Orwell’s Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest.
New York: The Free Press, 1994.
First edition of this work in which Huber discusses the compelling vision of Orwell's 1984. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Bill Safire Peter Huber." Also laid in is a letter from The Manhattan Institute to William Safire. The recipient, William Safire, was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He authored several political columns in addition to his weekly column “On…
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 143749
-
"It takes someone very special to help you forget someone very special": First edition of Oliver's Story; inscribed by Erich Segal
SEGAL, Erich.
Oliver’s Story.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1977.
First edition of the dramatic sequel to Love Story, the basis for the 1978 film starring Ryan O'Neal, this time opposite Candice Bergen. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "Regards- Erich Segal 9 June 1978." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Anita Scott.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 143618
-
Rare first edition of The Investment Process: Investment Policies for Trust Institutions and Portfolio Managers
The Investment Process: Investment Policies for Trust Institutions and Portfolio Managers.
Charlottesville, Virgina: The Financial Analysts Research Foundation, 1976.
First edition of the proceedings of a Seminar on the Trust Investment Process sponsored with contributions by Canadian members of the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. In near fine condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 88091
